is it normal on these vans to have nearly 1/2 a tank variation on the fuel guage depending on cornering and hills?
cheers...dave
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Re: fuel guage
Mines like that .......sometimes I think I have a leak but it slowly meanders back. The shape of the tank and position of the sender don't help much!
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Re: fuel guage
Mine is the same
I don't recall the diseaseal being like that though....

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Re: fuel guage
ahhh.so im not alone
came back from the coast the other week and thought i had 1/4 of a tank left when i got home..parked up on the drive with nose downhill slightly..next day it was coughing and spluttering when i started it up and got worse till it cut out.im thinking oh bugger the trip out has killed it!!!.got a fivers worth in a can and put that in and away it went again.learned a valuble lesson though,fill up b4 it gets to the red bit !!

came back from the coast the other week and thought i had 1/4 of a tank left when i got home..parked up on the drive with nose downhill slightly..next day it was coughing and spluttering when i started it up and got worse till it cut out.im thinking oh bugger the trip out has killed it!!!.got a fivers worth in a can and put that in and away it went again.learned a valuble lesson though,fill up b4 it gets to the red bit !!
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Re: fuel guage
We learned the hard way never to let ours get anywhere near the quarter mark, did you know there's no filling stations between the M25 & Dover ?
Seems to be a VW thing, the Golf's the same, oneminute easily quarter of a tank left, next morning gauge hardly rises.
Don't trust em
Andi

Seems to be a VW thing, the Golf's the same, oneminute easily quarter of a tank left, next morning gauge hardly rises.
Don't trust em

Andi
What a long strange trip it's been
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will do andi
..i consider mesen lucky to get home that time....it wont happen again 


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Re: fuel guage
Mine constantly sits just above the red regardless of how much LPG I use 

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Re: fuel guage
here we go with the 'gas heads' taking the preverbial...Cruz wrote:Mine constantly sits just above the red regardless of how much LPG I use


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